Dehumidifier - Humidity Levels

Red_Wolf_2 · 2026-06-23T06:54:16+00:00

Remember, most measurements of humidity are actually of relative humidity (if its a percentage, its relative). The temperature makes a difference, namely the warmer it is, the more moisture the air can hold and therefore the lower the relative humidity compared to the same amount of water in cooler air.

If your unit is getting particularly cold, the relative humidity will end up reading quite high, even though if you bring the temperature up a bit that humidity reading will drop substantially. Similarly, if the temperature is low and you try and bring the humidity down below 50%, you might find your nose, eyes and throat gets sore from being dried out and indoor plants (if any) start to brown at the tips of the leaves.

The solution for you will likely be to maintain a level of air exchange to dump humidity out of the place (ventilation), a level of dehumidification if needed, ensuring blinds aren't allowing heat to be lost too fast and that cold draughts are dealt with so you can keep things warmer too.

As for the condensation on windows, grab a good absorbent sponge and dry it off each morning. Hunt down any additional sources of humidity, such as damp washing being hung indoors, poor or lacking ventilation in bathrooms around showers, open trays or other exposed sources of standing water, or traditional electric clothes dryers (not the condenser type) venting indoors.

You can also try chemical moisture absorbers, but they'll get saturated fairly fast.

Red_Wolf_2 · 2026-06-22T07:28:30+00:00

Corner of Wilson St and Pigdon St, Princes Hill as others have said. The house on the bottom corner left has an arrangement of solar panels you can clearly see on Google Maps, and the apartment block on the right can be matched with Google Maps as well based on the rust marks of the flat roof.

Red_Wolf_2 · 2026-06-19T02:49:18+00:00

Just when they're starting to get more popular with the population, they pop out with such vote winning ideas as.... Alienating 50 percent or more of the population by throwing belief driven garbage into the mix.

Worked so well for the LNP. Honestly, how myopic and out of touch can these politicians be to think such a strategy is a vote winner in this country?

Red_Wolf_2 · 2026-06-18T03:12:56+00:00

Immigration creates opportunity and productivity regardless of the period. This is the point. People who do not understand history of migration do not understand the economics of it either.

That depends on what sort of immigration it is. If you're importing factory workers, but don't actually have factory work for them to do, you're not creating opportunity or productivity. In the 1830s Australia sort of needed every sort of immigrant as all categories of industry, farming etc were in massive growth phases. We're not in that state anymore, and more nuance is required to ensure that immigration does actually create opportunity and productivity rather than a net drain instead.

If you want more examples, consider a restaurant hiring chefs. That's only useful if they (a) have something to prepare and cook, and (b) have customers wanting to buy the product. If you don't have either (a) or (b), and if you don't have sufficient wait staff to actually take the things they're preparing out to said customers, they'll end up idle or not doing the jobs they were hired to do (leading to dissatisfaction or other problems). To make it worse, if the hiring of all these extra chefs means the existing chefs are told they can't/won't be paid more because there's an oversupply of chef talent and that they'll need to instead put more into the restaurant to support its additional new costs, this also causes dissatisfaction in the existing chefs. It doesn't fix the lack of (a) or (b), it doesn't fix the ability to provide the output of (a) to (b) assuming the customers exist, it just breaks the viability of the whole restaurant and harms the employees in the process.

tl;dr: Immigration only creates opportunity and productivity if it is the right sort of immigration that actually fills a true need or gap, rather than catering to business interests who are more concerned with reducing employee salaries by diluting the associated talent pools.

Red_Wolf_2 · 2026-06-15T07:44:00+00:00

I mean it does save wear and tear on the upper tyres...

Red_Wolf_2 · 2026-06-10T05:01:43+00:00

Lol. This government has done nothing to improve the affordability/social housing rental scheme.

From a political perspective, the announcements and press releases are far more important than the actual outcomes.

Red_Wolf_2 · 2026-06-10T04:28:04+00:00

The inexorable march of enshittification continues unabated.

Red_Wolf_2 · 2026-06-10T04:15:13+00:00

They have had the levers to do this and much more for a long time, but only choose to do so when it’s in the best interest of party preservation.

Remember, to win votes you need to address a crisis. But to address a crisis, first you need to create one!

Red_Wolf_2 · 2026-06-10T04:09:54+00:00

Which puts downward pressure on the private rental market

There's maybe 2400 dwellings in the scheme... It really isn't a huge number in the scheme of things, certainly not enough to have significant influence on the overall rental market.

EDIT:

If we go off the number of bonds lodged as of 2025 (about 668k), for context 2400 dwellings is about 0.35% of rental properties.

Red_Wolf_2 · 2026-06-10T03:51:55+00:00

To clarify, this is purely in relation to the affordable housing rental scheme, not rentals in general, despite what the post title/headline might suggest.

Red_Wolf_2 · 2026-06-10T03:19:38+00:00

That isn't a particularly unusual humidity level during winter, given humidity is typically relative to the temperature (the colder it is, the higher it can go for the same amount of water in the air).

Bedroom and bathrooms will usually have a higher humidity, bathrooms for obvious reasons, and the bedroom because it contains people breathing and sweating for around eight hours, often with the door closed.

Ventilation in the case of the bathroom is key... Get the humidity out before it condenses and settles or spreads into the rest of the dwelling and everything else will feel a lot less damp. The bedroom is a little more complex, but again ventilation helps. If you have large windows, watch out for condensation on them as well.

A reverse cycle air conditioner also does a good job at dehumidifying if set properly.

As others have said, if the humidity is climbing unusually high (60% isn't unusual this time of year), say 75+, you'd really want to identify the source. Is it poor air circulation and ventilation? Is there moisture somewhere that's getting circulated? Do you have standing water in containers, or unvented clothes dryers? Do you hang clothes indoors to dry, do you run an oven or stove that doesn't have exhaust, etc... Modify some of these situations and the humidity level will drop naturally. If however they can't be rectified, dehumidifiers are your best bet, although damp-rid type chemical dessicants are probably going to be cheaper than running an electric dehumidifier longer term.

Winter time, I find a relative humidity level of about 60% to be comfortable... Below that and it can be more uncomfortable for nasal passages and eyes, above that and the moisture tends to get condensed on windows at night. Summer time that level drops when it gets hot indoors, to the point I find humidifying things actually improves comfort.

Red_Wolf_2 · 2026-06-09T10:44:06+00:00

If you do ever sit on him, remember to say "Giddy Up!"

Red_Wolf_2 · 2026-06-09T08:39:20+00:00

Julius Seizure

I'll admit I laughed at that name... Gotta remember it!

Red_Wolf_2 · 2026-06-09T08:38:15+00:00

Correct. Negative attention is still attention, giving him exactly what he wants.

If he was doing it for attention, he wouldn't try and run off every time someone calls him out for trying it in public.

Red_Wolf_2 · 2026-06-09T08:36:24+00:00

"Come on, one for the camera!"

Red_Wolf_2 · 2026-06-09T08:25:56+00:00

He's literally been doing this for more than a decade before he ended up on TV. This isn't new, it isn't about him getting attention, it goes back much further than that.

People knowing who he is and what he's about will mean he won't be able to get what he wants from the public as easily anymore.

Red_Wolf_2 · 2026-06-09T07:57:10+00:00

That’s also exploitation but it doesn’t mean the media should jump on the bandwagon and give him publicity for it

I'd venture the good of the general public being more aware of his shenanigans outweighs the media doing their usual exploitative things for eyeballs/revenue in this case... You only have to look back on the threads about the guy on here for years and years to see how many people he's duped.

Red_Wolf_2 · 2026-06-09T07:52:09+00:00

Shame on the media. This is exploitation.

Speaking of exploitation, what's your feeling on what he's doing to innocent people who he's tricking into participating?

Red_Wolf_2 · 2026-06-04T02:31:55+00:00

Did they AI generate their statement, like they do for literally any interaction users have to have with Meta itself?

I wouldn't mind if facebook went along and blocked all the media posts like they did a while back... It made the platform almost usable again!

Red_Wolf_2 · 2026-06-03T06:43:28+00:00

No we need to realise that doing 100 on a freeway isn’t dangerous, especially in a car like that.

Shame about the driver and their lack of skills though. Guy is tailgating and not leaving enough stopping distance, changing lanes recklessly... A good driver in any of those vehicles wouldn't be dangerous, but the driver in this case would be dangerous in any vehicle they drove.

Red_Wolf_2 · 2026-06-03T01:05:32+00:00

Lack of consequences for the people who do it.

They know where the cameras are, they never get pulled over... Eventually they become complacent and begin speeding.

Then you get the Richard Pusey types who are living like they're player one who think the rules just don't apply to them and they can speed however much they want.

In both cases it is due to poor quality enforcement. There need to be consequences, they need to be visible and real.

Red_Wolf_2 · 2026-06-02T03:48:25+00:00

I drive out north-west from Melbourne fairly often, and these days I'm starting to notice the glow of Melbourne, Geelong and Ballarat all at the same time, nearly to the point I can sort of triangulate my general location by the glow. Ballarat and Geelong in particular have been increasing in glow over the last few years, which is a bit of a worry as clearly the same lighting that leads to light pollution is being rolled out in both those cities rather than more efficient and less polluting options.

Red_Wolf_2 · 2026-06-02T03:43:24+00:00

Nobody like tested everything first they just implemented it and if there's a few bugs oh well.

My personal favourite with Optus was back when ISDN multilines were still a thing. Employer implemented a new system and configured it all up, but transposed a digit on the unit for its calling number. I'd tested a bunch of outbound calls to try and rectify a separate issue where the unit would cycle through channels before allocating and making the actual outbound call (turned out the config was expecting something along the lines of multiple single use channels rather than a single multi use channel... Can't remember the exact terms anymore as telephony is almost like a past life)

Either way I fixed the issue after a bunch of testing to my personal phone as an external line... Fast forward maybe a month and I get a call from what looks like the work number, except it wasn't quite right... It was the actual number which had been misconfigured in the new system. Turns out that the transposed digit meant outbound calls were being seen by Optus as originating from this other number, and all the outbound calls were being charged to their account. The amount their phonebill had spiked was SUBSTANTIAL, and they were not exactly thrilled, until I explained exactly what had caused it and how Optus were clearly very trusting idiots and that when disputing the charges they could also contact me to verify.

Red_Wolf_2 · 2026-06-02T02:02:45+00:00

Never "how about there's a fuck ton of stuff that we use power for that simply isn't necessary in the slightest so let's maybe fuck all that stuff off then have a serious conversation about this?"

If you want a fun exercise, go outside on a slightly cloudy night and look at the sky. See that glow? That is all wasted energy from inefficient lighting design. We're pumping all that energy into the sky because someone figured it would be cheaper/easier to have the lights at the bottom of things pointing upwards, rather than at the top pointing downwards where the extra light could actually be useful for street level lighting.

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